American and English Literature

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Subject Directories

• Voice of the Shuttle > Literature (in English)

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Internet Sites

• Bartleby.com: Great Books Online - Full text source of literature and reference books
• Internet Public Library > Literary Criticism
• Literary Resources on the Net
• Online Books Page - Full text of thousands of literary works
• PAL: Perspectives in American Literature: a Reference and Research Guide

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Articles: Indexes and Full Text

• Gale Literary Databases: Contemporary Literary Criticism
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• JSTOR: the Scholarly Journal Archive
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• Expanded Academic ASAP (Infotrac)
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• Academic Search Elite (Ebscohost)
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Print Sources

• To find print (and some non-print) materials in OCC Libraries, search the Library Catalog. Some sample Library of Congress Subject Headings searches are:
  • American literature -- 19th century -- history and criticism
  • American poetry -- 20th century
  • beat generation
  • English literature
  • Shakespeare, William   (for books about Shakespeare)
  • short stories
     
• Selected Reference Books
  • Andrews, WIlliam L. , Frances Smith Foster, Trudier Harris, eds. The Oxford Companion to African American Literature.   New York : Oxford University Pr., 1997.
         AH, OR, RO  Reference  PS 153 .N5 O96 1997
  • Davidson, Cathy N., Linda Wagner-Martin, eds. The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States.  New York: Oxford University Pr., 1994.
         HL, OR, RO  Reference  PS 147 .O94 1994
  • Hart, James D. The Oxford Companion to American Literature.  New York: Oxford University Pr., 1995.
         AH, HL, OR, RO  Reference  PS 21 .H3
  • Magill, Frank N.  Critical Survey of Poetry.  Pasadena, CA: Salem Pr., 2003.
         AH, HL  Reference  PN 1021 .C7 2003
  • Murphy, Bruce, ed.  Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia.  New York: HarperCollins.  Includes literary definitions.
         AH, HL, OR, RO Reference  PN 41 .B4
  • Short Story Criticism.  Detroit, MI: Gale Research, 1988- .
         AH, HL, OR, RO Reference  PN 3321 .S5
  • Ward, A.W., and A.R. Waller, eds. The Cambridge History of English Literature.  Cambridge: University Pr., 1963-66.
         AH, HL, OR, RO  Reference  PN 1021 .C7 2003
     
• Browsing Call Numbers (in Library of Congress Classification)
  • PA 3131  Greek Drama 
  • PN 6014  Literature -- Collections
  • PR 19  English Literature -- Dictionaries
  • PR 61+  English Literature -- History and Criticism
  • PR 1173+  English Poetry -- Collections
  • PS 21  American Literature -- Dictionaries
  • PS 58+ American Literature -- History and Criticism
  • PS 583+  American Poetry -- Collections

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OCC Departmental Web Pages

• AH English
• HL English
• OR English
• RO/SF English

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